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	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the consequences of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the consequences of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

			==Development==
	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

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imported>Soranin at 20:46, 19 April 2025

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	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

	After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> In a December 2021 interview with ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said the company is "hoping that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref> However, this was quashed in September 2022, when Côté confirmed to ''{{Wiki\|~~Axios (~~Axios (website))\|Axios}}'' that, contrary to rumors, there were no plans to make any further crossovers.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|title=Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910204321/https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|author=Totilo, Stephen\|date=10 September 2022\|publisher=''Axios''\|accessdate=3 March 2025}}</ref>		After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> In a December 2021 interview with ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said the company is "hoping that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref> However, this was quashed in September 2022, when Côté confirmed to ''{{Wiki\|Axios (website)\|Axios}}'' that, contrary to rumors, there were no plans to make any further crossovers.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|title=Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910204321/https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|author=Totilo, Stephen\|date=10 September 2022\|publisher=''Axios''\|accessdate=3 March 2025}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==

imported>Darman36: Axios technically says no ACV/ACO crossovers, but given dev computers are locked up after game releases, I highly doubt they'll do any other crossovers, either

2025-03-03T06:15:42Z

Axios technically says no ACV/ACO crossovers, but given dev computers are locked up after game releases, I highly doubt they'll do any other crossovers, either

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	'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring ~~the~~ protagonists ~~of each game~~, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel ~~along the announcement of the~~ ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.		'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between the video games ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' (2018) and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' (2020) featuring each games' main protagonists, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel alongside ''Valhalla''{{'}}s new ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion announcement on 13 December 2021.

	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the ~~aftermath~~ of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the consequences of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any ~~applicable~~ expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

	After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> ~~When interviewed by~~ ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said ~~that~~ the company "~~[hoped]~~ that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> In a December 2021 interview with ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said the company is "hoping that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref> However, this was quashed in September 2022, when Côté confirmed to ''{{Wiki\|Axios (Axios (website))\|Axios}}'' that, contrary to rumors, there were no plans to make any further crossovers.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|title=Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910204321/https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|author=Totilo, Stephen\|date=10 September 2022\|publisher=''Axios''\|accessdate=3 March 2025}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==

imported>Blue-castle at 11:05, 16 December 2023

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imported>Darman36 at 00:06, 17 October 2023

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	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for ~~future~~ use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

	After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>

imported>Darman36 at 00:06, 17 October 2023

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	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been ~~madespite~~ it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for future use . After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref>{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for future use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

			After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==

imported>Darman36: Oddly, this expansion only happened because of COVID

2023-10-17T00:05:05Z

Oddly, this expansion only happened because of COVID

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	[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]		[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]
	'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the Assassin's Creed Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.		'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.

	The crossover ~~sees~~ both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that ~~sees~~ Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of ~~Hermes Trismegistus\|Staff]] of [[~~Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' ~~has~~ Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[''hoped'']'' that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future''", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been madespite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for future use . After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref>{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==

imported>Batfan13 at 04:57, 16 March 2022

2022-03-16T04:57:13Z

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	[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]		[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]
	'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the Assassin's Creed Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.		'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the Assassin's Creed Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.

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	'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring ~~the~~ protagonists ~~of each game~~, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel ~~along the announcement of the~~ ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.		'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between the video games ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' (2018) and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' (2020) featuring each games' main protagonists, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel alongside ''Valhalla''{{'}}s new ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion announcement on 13 December 2021.

	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the ~~aftermath~~ of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the consequences of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any ~~applicable~~ expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'' in September 2022, developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis\|Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

	After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> ~~When interviewed by~~ ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said ~~that~~ the company "~~[hoped]~~ that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> In a December 2021 interview with ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said the company is "hoping that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref> However, this was quashed in September 2022, when Côté confirmed to ''{{Wiki\|Axios (Axios (website))\|Axios}}'' that, contrary to rumors, there were no plans to make any further crossovers.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|title=Ubisoft announces 6 Assassin’s Creed games and a franchise shake-up\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910204321/https://www.axios.com/2022/09/10/assassins-creed-red-hexe-jade-marc-alexis-cote\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|author=Totilo, Stephen\|date=10 September 2022\|publisher=''Axios''\|accessdate=3 March 2025}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==

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	The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for ~~future~~ use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been made, despite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for use.<ref name="Eurogamer">{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref>

	After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Eurogamer"/> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>

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	[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]		[[File:AC Crossover Stories Logo.png\|thumb\|250px\|Crossover logo]]
	'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the Assassin's Creed Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.		'''''Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories''''' is a crossover between ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' featuring the protagonists of each game, [[Kassandra]] and [[Eivor Varinsdottir]], respectively. Released on 14 December 2021, it was first unveiled by [[Ubisoft]] on the ''[[Assassin's Creed (series)\|Assassin's Creed]]'' Youtube channel along the announcement of the ''[[Dawn of Ragnarök]]'' expansion on 13 December 2021.

	The crossover ~~sees~~ both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that ~~sees~~ Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of ~~Hermes Trismegistus\|Staff]] of [[~~Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' ~~has~~ Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>		The crossover saw both games receive a new free story arc update, with "Those Who Are Treasured" in ''Odyssey'' that had Kassandra travel to the island of [[Korfu]] to explore the aftermath of obtaining the immortality-granting [[Staff of Hermes Trismegistus]], while "A Fated Encounter" in ''Valhalla'' had Eivor travel to the [[Isle of Skye]], where she encounters Kassandra.<ref name="Ubisoft News">{{Ubisoft\|url=en-us/article/2wfc7NcxEXzjOGiY6AGjnB/assassins-creed-valhalla-unveils-dawn-of-ragnark-expansion-and-free-crossover-stories\|subdomain=news\|archivedate=20211213202708}}</ref>

	When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[''hoped'']'' that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future''", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>		This expansion was only made possible due to coincidental timings because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. As [[Marc-Alexis Côté]] revealed to ''{{Wiki\|Eurogamer}}'', developers at Ubisoft's [[Montreal]] headquarters usually had a closing process after a game and any applicable expansions were completed, where the computers that worked on art, animation, models, etc. would be boxed up, taped shut, and put in storage, from where the teams actually hoped to never have to reopen them. However, when staff left their offices and shifted to {{Wiki\|remote work}} as part of [[Quebec]]'s {{Wiki\|COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec\|pandemic response}}, the boxes still had not been madespite it having been many months since ''Odyssey''{{'}}s second extensive [[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey downloadable content\|downloadable]] expansion ''[[The Fate of Atlantis]]'' released its third and final installment ''[[The Fate of Atlantis: Judgment of Atlantis]]'' in mid-July 2019. This uncharacteristically left ''Odyssey''{{'}}s assets still available for future use . After Ubisoft's CEO [[Yves Guillemot]] called and asked if ''Odyssey'' was finished, Côté confirmed it and hung up, only to remember that the computers were still not in storage. He then called Guillemot again to pitch the idea, not just because of his own and the player community's reactions to [[Melissanthi Mahut]]'s performance as Kassandra, but also to try and draw more players to ''Valhalla'' from those who still lingered in ''Odyssey''.<ref>{{Cite web\|accessdate=17 October 2023\|publisher=''Eurogamer''\|date=10 September 2022\|author=Phillips, Tom\|archivedate=10 September 2022\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910211844/https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is\|title=Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is\|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-explains-what-assassins-creed-infinity-actually-is}}</ref> When interviewed by ''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}'', Ubisoft Quebec's associate creative director Clémence Nogrix said that the company "[hoped] that this could prove and potentially give a green light to something in the future", but would not confirm whether another similar project was in development elsewhere.<ref name="Gamespot">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|title=Kassandra And Eivor Don't Flirt In Assassin's Creed Valhalla/Odyssey's Crossover Stories, But There's Tension\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214205616/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-odyssey-crossover-stories-no-flirting/1100-6498938/\|archivedate=14 December 2021\|author=Ramée, Jordan\|date=14 December 2021\|publisher=''{{Wiki\|Gamespot}}''\| accessdate=10 January 2022}}</ref>

	==Memories==		==Memories==